You may personally think that January 1 is just another day, but in the world of business and project management, the beginning of a calendar year marks an important point in time for an employer. In particular, the new year is important because it allows you to finally assess your revenue and profits ahead of Tax Day, a key step if you’re hoping to make big changes to your workforce planning or workforce scheduling in the coming year.…

When you’re running three businesses and need to keep track of employees whose schedules are constantly changing, chances are the paper timesheets stack up while the accuracy declines.…

It’s a challenging time to be in the building business. With labor costs up and competition as stiff as ever, every efficiency you gain in terms of time is invaluable. Strides in areas such as enhanced employee scheduling and better materials calculation make a big difference.…

At the end of the day, even if your business has the latest and greatest , there’s no greater resource than your employees. No matter how many collaboration tools you have, it’s ultimately your employees who will determine whether your company fails or thrives.…

If there is technology available to more accurately track the hours of a mobile workforce and reduce the time spent calculating payroll, most businesses would definitely want to take advantage of it. That said, employers also want to ensure that the changes being introduced won’t inconvenience or offend their workers.…

Keeping track of employee hours and wages is one of the main challenges of mobile workforce management. It's particularly difficult if you’re running a business that depends on hundreds (or even thousands) of mobile workers at multiple job sites to keep an accurate record of how much time each employee is working.…

Getting employees to work more effectively together is one of the guiding tenets of successful project management and workforce management. In recent years, a plethora of collaboration tools have taken the workplace by storm. Whether they’re being used at the same job site or miles away from each other, these technologies offer workers convenient, user-friendly ways of communicating and sharing work with each other.…

Nostalgic AIM users shed a collective tear as news that the pioneering chat app will close its windows forever at the end of this year. Pushed to the sidelines by the likes of Facebook and Google Hangouts, AOL can no longer compete. As tech is constantly evolving, business leaders continue to seek out the best chat apps for employees at work.…